Is the mind distinct from the body? After confirming my conclusion and considering Strawson's predicate and numerical identity argument, no it is not, but according to Descartes, he believes it is. Descartes beliefs, known as Cartesian Dualism, is the belief that “a person’s mind and a person’s body are things of totally different sorts” (18.) Descartes states that “the mind is not a material or object, that it is separate from an individual’s body but connect with one another through common interactions.” Because of Peter Strawson predicate argument against Descartes and his more logical counter argument stating that “the concept of a surface is dependent on the concept of a material object, that the concept of a score is dependent on the
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Strawsons concept of this is “one person, one consciousness; same person, same consciousness” (30.) Strawson describes this theory through “The recipe for counting individual minds is to count people; for him the identification of a mind presents no greater (no less) a problem than the identification of a person” also known as the numerical identity that we use in our everyday life when identifying the quantity of an object proving that whenever we count something we are counting the whole individual which is the composition of the body and mind. I find Strawson predicate argument and numerical identity argument to be stronger than Descartes and the separation of the body and mind to be more liable because in my everyday life I play football. One of the biggest rules in football is the number of players allowed on the field during the play. To identify a number of people on the field we use numerical identity, which is the concept of counting each individual person. When counting each person on the field we are counting their body and their mind because they both make up one single individual. Also, another theory that I conformed to counteract Descartes and his theory is when an individual is weighing one’s self. When you step on the scale, it weighs both your mind and body, it doesn’t separate one from another which one provide a skewed …show more content…
Because Descartes cannot admit the dependence that “a concept of a score is dependent on the concept of a game” and that “the concept of a mind or consciousness is dependent on the concept of a living person” forces Descartes into the use of the “predicate reduction” theory. Strawson presents this through an example of writing a letter and how when writing a letter, “it is not essentially something that a mind does or something that a body does, but something that a person does” proving that the mind and body are one complete thing. He proves that the mind and body are inseparable through the concept of numerical identity or counting. When counting, we count the individual by his living presence which includes both his body and mind just like when an individual weighs their
Strawsons concept of this is “one person, one consciousness; same person, same consciousness” (30.) Strawson describes this theory through “The recipe for counting individual minds is to count people; for him the identification of a mind presents no greater (no less) a problem than the identification of a person” also known as the numerical identity that we use in our everyday life when identifying the quantity of an object proving that whenever we count something we are counting the whole individual which is the composition of the body and mind. I find Strawson predicate argument and numerical identity argument to be stronger than Descartes and the separation of the body and mind to be more liable because in my everyday life I play football. One of the biggest rules in football is the number of players allowed on the field during the play. To identify a number of people on the field we use numerical identity, which is the concept of counting each individual person. When counting each person on the field we are counting their body and their mind because they both make up one single individual. Also, another theory that I conformed to counteract Descartes and his theory is when an individual is weighing one’s self. When you step on the scale, it weighs both your mind and body, it doesn’t separate one from another which one provide a skewed …show more content…
Because Descartes cannot admit the dependence that “a concept of a score is dependent on the concept of a game” and that “the concept of a mind or consciousness is dependent on the concept of a living person” forces Descartes into the use of the “predicate reduction” theory. Strawson presents this through an example of writing a letter and how when writing a letter, “it is not essentially something that a mind does or something that a body does, but something that a person does” proving that the mind and body are one complete thing. He proves that the mind and body are inseparable through the concept of numerical identity or counting. When counting, we count the individual by his living presence which includes both his body and mind just like when an individual weighs their